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Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
In Latin, specie is the ablative singular form, while species is the nominative form, which happens to be the same in both singular and plural. In English, species behaves similarly—as a noun with identical singular and plural—while specie is treated as a mass noun, referring to money in the form of coins (the idea is of "[payment] in kind").
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Some schools, particularly public universities, will use admissions criteria which are almost entirely formulaic in certain aspects of admission. For example, they may be required by statute to admit a minimum number of in-state students, or to guarantee admission to students graduating the top 6% of their high school class, or to guarantee ...
An alumnus or alumna is a former student or a graduate of an educational institution (school, college, university). [12] According to the United States Department of Education , the term alumnae is used in conjunction with either women's colleges [ 13 ] or a female group of students.
The problem seems to be that you want to use the "alumni" category only for "graduate alumni". "Alumni" means both graduate alumni and non-graduate alumni. If you want to make a distinction, you need two non-overlapping categories. "Alumni" overlaps both. - Nunh-huh 01:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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In 1888, the Ex-Cadets Association was reorganized to form the Alumni Association. [5] In the mid-1890s, E.P. Cushing founded Alpha Phi to "work for the upbuilding of the college." [ 6 ] Cushing chose to contact all 3,000 former students of the college, rather than just the 300 students who had received degrees. [ 6 ]